For the fourth time Canaan and I headed to the Province of Quebec for our Canada Hockey Adventure, for the 2nd time we added pro wrestling to the journey. Our last adventure was in December 2024 and I wrote about it here: Quebec Wrestling Adventure.
Friday the 9th we headed north to taking Route 201 through the Sandy Bay Township border crossing into Quebec. In Jackman we had to stop for the train, I filmed a video for Wesley, didn't realize it was going to be over 4 minutes!!
We stopped in Saint-Georges to get some cash from the ATM and have lunch at Harvey's. It's a Canadian fast food burger chain, I ate at one before with Kate in Moncton, New Brunswick and we were not a fan. I thought it was due for another try and I was wrong. The onion rings were great, but the burgers remained subpar....but edible.
Our next stop was in Quebec City at the offices of Spira and independent movie distribution company so I could pick up a copy of the wrestling documentary Celles Qui Luttent about French Canadian woman wrestlers Lufisto, Loue O'Farrell and Azaelle. I wanted to watch this for quite awhile, but I couldn't order it because with the tariffs shipping alone was $49. I messaged them in advance and they said I could come to the office and pick up a copy.
We departed Quebec City for a 200km drive north to the village of Jonquiere in the Saguenay area. We had to drive through the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve which had no exits for a very large chunk of it and only a rest stop in the middle with gas, store, and restaurant. While we hit light snow in Quebec City it was snowing light crazy through the high point.
We checked into our inn, Auberge Des Deux Tours, which is located on the back side of a restaurant. It was very basic, two full beds and a bathroom, which is all we need. We went to the mall and had A & W for dinner and Canaan picked up some earbuds at Best Buy.
Our reason for going up here was to check out the LNAH team the Jonquiere Marquis they played National de Québec, one of two of the 2024 expansion teams. We had seen the Marquis before, but this was the first time seeing National.
Another very cool old arena Palais des Sports de Saguenay, built on 1946, renovated in 2005. It was a packed out with a very raucous crowd that is very typical of this league. Nationals have a player with a great name! Marquis dominated winning 7 - 2. They out played Nationals at every turn. I has some subpar poutine at the game but it looked good.
The church across the street from the Inn was all lit up when we got back to the room. It was very pretty.
Saturday morning we packed up and hit the road about 1030 for the journey south back to Quebec City. The journey back through the Wildlife reserve it wasn't snowing, but the road quite slushy at times. We stopped at that rest stop again where they specialize in selling bite size sausages wrapped in bacon, they were tremendous! The van got filthy on the drive so far, so we hit a carwash, it was really bad.
We had some time to kill before we could check into the hotel, so we hit the mall, Galeries de la Capitale which features Mega Parc and indoor amusement park with ice rink. I went here when I was a senior in high school during out French Club trip in February 1997, 29 years ago, so it was cool to see again.
The indoor roller coaster track was still there, but it doesn't appear as though they use it anymore. There used to be a hockey rink on the main floor as I recall a hockey tournament being played there when I was here in high school. There is still and ice rink, but it goes all around in a like a street course racetrack.
We has lunch at the mall, a smash burger place, are you seeing a pattern. The mall was disappointing to us and it didn't have any stores that we really care about. It was all clothing stores, mostly, a few kids stores, but it did have a physical media store, music and movies.
We got into the hotel, a much nicer room than last night, and the beds were a lot more comfortable. We relaxed in room and put the football game on.
We headed out to Old Quebec as I wanted to get a big bag of Quebec Blend popcorn from Mary's Popcorn Boutique. It's a mix of maple and cheddar popcorn. We headed over the Centre Horizon after to get parked, it's a small parking area and I wanted to make sure we got a spot. We watch the majority of Slap Shot in the van before heading into the venue. Doors opened at 7pm, with preshow at 730pm and live on IWTV at 8pm.
It was a great night of professional wrestling! North Shore Pro Wrestling has been running shows at the Centre Horizon as fat back as 2010, last time we had GA but this time I bought front row in advance. Once again the place was PACKED with fans with the seats sold out and standing room shoulder to shoulder. Let's get to the results:
January 10, 2026
Lutte NSPW: North Shore Pro Wrestling
Centre Horizon, Quebec City, QC
Pre-Show
Killshot: Bryan Colt & Elrick defeated The Gentlemen: McCreezy & Steel Jr.
Golden Greg pinned William DaVinci
Travis Toxic with Nox pinned Dreya Mitchell
Red Kingdom: Azaelle & Damian Wild defeated South Shore Wrecking Crew: Giovanni & Jack Saunders when they pinned Saunders
Yann Pike pinned Tyler Nox with Travis Toxic
Dylan Donovan pinned Stu Grayson
Audrey Moreau interviewing Stu Grayson was attacked by Alex Silva and Dani Leo
MDMA: Mitch Thompson & DGenerate with Midianne defeated NSPW Champion: Miche; Plante & Matt Falco with Maloon when Falco was pinned. This was advertised as a title match for Falco, MDMA ran in and it became a tag match, after Falco attacked Plante
Jason Gray pinned Heavy Rox, who was substituting for an injured Loue O’Farrell, who cut a promo on Gray after the match
Fans Bring The Weapons Match: Tabarnak de Team: Mathieu St. Jacques & Thomas Dubois defeated NSPW Tag Team Champions: Diamand Du Monde: Marko Estrada & Zak Patterson to win the championships
I was happy to see Dreya Mitchell live for the first time, she's excellent and is going to be huge someday. Travis Toxic is also VERY good and there's a reason he's so popular with the fanbase.
The tag team match with of Red Kingdom vs. South Shore Wrecking Crew told a great story where both teams seemed to be at odds within themselves and Red Kingdom was able to get it together to get the win. At intermission I had a great chat with them about this.
I got Azaelle to sign her card as well as my Celles Qui Luttent dvd. I was hoping to Loue to sign it as well, but she did not come out during intermission or after the show.
I a huge fan of Tabarnak de Team, seeing them win the fans bring the weapons match and capture the tag team titles was awesome!
After the show we headed back to the hotel Sunday morning we got ready but stuck around the hotel until the noon check out time, it was snowed a few inches overnight, and really didn't have anything to do until the hockey game.
Sunday's LNAH game was matinee with a 2pm start time watching the Nationals play the Sorel-Tracy Eperviers, a team we have seen before. Nationals play in a fairly new venue, it's very nice, but it doesn't have the same atmosphere as the other arenas. Either they don't have the fanbase as the other teams, or perhaps because of the time of the game attendance was quite low. Our seats were great, right at center ice in between both benches.
There was a lot of tension during warm ups and teams even nearly came to fisticuffs. Nationals played much better today beating the Eperviers 6 - 3. Some good aggressive hockey. We only have two teams left to see in their home arenas.
We headed home, it was about a 4.5 drive, and we managed to get home about 845pm. Out of Quebec City you take Autoroute 73 south which ends in Saint-Georges from there you side road and main route it for 134 miles to Interstate 95 in Fairfield. That 134 miles is a VERY long stretch of desolate road. It was after sunset when we crossed the border back into Maine. I told Canaan we had to scan for Moose as they are big and hide out in the dark.
About 3 miles north of the West Forks on the right side of the road we spotted the biggest moose I've ever seen! It looked like he had a billboard on his head the rack was so big when he turned his head. We stopped in Skowhegan to fuel up Vanatu and get yet another burger this time at Burger King.
It was an awesome weekend of wrestling and hockey.
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